Table 1.

Average national medicare costs in 2015 US nominal dollars

Intervention	CPT code	Cost per treatment
Visudyne dye for PDT therapy	J3396	$1613
Intravitreal bevacizumab, 1.25 mg	J9035	$68
Intravitreal dexamethasone, 1 mg	J1100	$10
Photodynamic therapy physician fee	67,221	$298
Intravitreal injection of medication	67,028	$106
Fundus photography	92,250	$79
Intravenous fluorescein angiography	92,235	$111
Indocyanine green angiography	92,240	$256
Optical coherence tomography	92,134	$46
Ophthalmological services, medical examination and evaluation	92,004	$151
Ophthalmological services, medical examination and evaluation	92,012	$87
Ophthalmological services, medical examination and treatment	92,014	$126
Eye Promise Zeaxanthina, Zea Vision, 20 mg per day, 1-year cost	NA	$360

CPT current procedural terminology, the interventional classification utilized by Medicare, NA not applicable

^aNot included within the Medicare CPT codes